dynamic
toggle menu
menu
vocabulary
1000+ books

infatuated
in a sentence

Show 3 more sentences
  • Josie said you were INFATUATED with her.  (source)
    INFATUATED = possessed by an intense attraction
  • McCandless had been infatuated with London since childhood.†  (source)
  • In the 1930s, America was infatuated with the pseudoscience of eugenics and its promise of strengthening the human race by culling the "unfit" from the genetic pool.†  (source)
▲ show less (of above)
Show 10 more with 5 word variations
  • Every time I revisited the Quatrain, my ongoing infatuation with Art3mis would undermine my ability to focus, and before long I would close my grail diary and call her up to see if she wanted to hang out.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • I pull the door shut and back out of the parking lot, not sure if I'm angry, embarrassed, or infatuated.†  (source)
  • In college she had harbored lengthy infatuations, with students with whom she never spoke, with professors and TAs.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.
  • But as matters really stood, to watch Miss Ingram's efforts at fascinating Mr. Rochester, to witness their repeated failure — herself unconscious that they did fail; vainly fancying that each shaft launched hit the mark, and infatuatedly pluming herself on success, when her pride and self-complacency repelled further and further what she wished to allure — to witness THIS, was to be at once under ceaseless excitation and ruthless restraint.†  (source)
  • Feeling like an overinfatuated idiot, I got up to close the door.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "over-" in overinfatuated means excessively. This is the same pattern as seen in words like overconfident, overemphasize, and overstimulate.
  • Second, there is their infatuation with the West, which presumably stems from their long history of intermarriage with the Poles.†  (source)
  • Yet she became infatuated with the magic Dan wrought upon the amateurs at The Gravesend Players, so much so that she accepted a part in Maugham's The Constant Wife; she was the regal mother of the deceived wife, and she proved to have the perfect, frivolous touch for drawing-room comedy—she was a model of the kind of sophistication we could all do well without.†  (source)
  • His life meanwhile continued as before, with the same infatuations and dissipations.†  (source)
  • No, this will simply cause a powerful infatuation or obsession.†  (source)
  • I suppose that's part of why Perrington is so infatuated.†  (source)
▲ show less (of above)